Geoscientific Methods

GeoEd: Citizen Geoscience

Laura Roberts-Artal December 5, 2014

Hiking to a survey site (Citizen Science). (Author: GlacierNPS; Uploaded by AlbertHerring, distributed by Wikimedia Commons)

In this month’s GeoEd column, Sam Illingworth tells us about the growing use of Citizen Science within research as a means of acquiring data. Whilst the practice is novel and offers exciting opportunities as to volumes of data collected Sam highlights the importance of appropriately crediting the work of the willing volunteers. Citizen Science is a phrase that is currently de rigour in scientific ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Plate it up – a recipe for sea ice errors

Sara Mynott June 16, 2014

Last week, a team of cryospheric scientists published a paper in The Cryosphere that showed how tiny plates of ice can lead to spurious estimates of sea ice thickness. This week, we’re featuring their findings, as well as some spectacular sea ice images in the latest in our Imaggeo on Mondays series… Viewing the poles from above is a stunning sight – a seemingly endless expanse of bril ...[Read More]

Geosciences Column: Meshing models with the small-scale ocean

Sara Mynott June 12, 2014

The latest Geosciences Column is brought to you by Nikita Marwaha, who explains how a new generation of marine models is letting scientists open up the oceans. The new technique, described in Ocean Science, reveals what’s happening to ocean chemistry and biology at scales that are often hard to model… Diving into the depths of the ocean without getting your feet wet is possible through biogeochemi ...[Read More]

Real life Minesweeper

Sara Mynott June 6, 2014

Reading GeoLog when you should be working? We are all guilty of a little procrastination, but, sometimes, the parallels between science and the games we play to postpone the next write-up are closer than you’d think. Victor Archambault, a scientist from US Radar, reveals how playing Minesweeper mimics the way geoscientists analyse data in the field… We have all played the infamous Minesweeper that ...[Read More]